wind tunnel
noun
: a tunnellike passage through which air is blown at a known velocity to investigate air flow around an object (such as an airplane part or model) placed in the passage
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Ward and Ausere said UConn does a great job supporting the club, helping pay for rigs, jumps and wind tunnel time.
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Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
But the team’s 2025 challenger only spent a few weeks in the wind tunnel at its factory in Grove, UK, last year, before Williams shifted the focus of its design engineers to this season’s car.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
For years, speedskaters, like cyclists, trained in wind tunnels to study that phenomenon.
—Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
There was a wind tunnel at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where Lundell is a professor, but it was overbooked, and waiting for real storms was slow.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026
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Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
But the team’s 2025 challenger only spent a few weeks in the wind tunnel at its factory in Grove, UK, last year, before Williams shifted the focus of its design engineers to this season’s car.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
For years, speedskaters, like cyclists, trained in wind tunnels to study that phenomenon.
—Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
There was a wind tunnel at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where Lundell is a professor, but it was overbooked, and waiting for real storms was slow.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Wind tunnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind%20tunnel. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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